Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-11-24
VALIANT FIGHT.
How Rochester, N. Y, wrsstled
With the Telephone and won2

| Rochester, N. Y, is the only city
in the United States which does not
generally use the Bell telephone;
On the 10th of November, 1886,
about seven hundred subscribers
hang up their phones, and they have
been hung up sincel
IL is the most noteworthy fight
with a corporation ever known.
The cause of it was the attempt
the local Bell company whose officers
all lived in another city, to exact a
rate per message from the subscrib-
ers, instead of a "dat rate" The peo-
pie resisted 1t, the courts sustained
the position that the license was re-
vokable at will, the Common Council
revoked 1t. The company ignored
this action, and, without permission,
erected poles in the streets and strung
additional wires; but the courts held
that this was unlawful.
According to the message rate,
house like IL. II. Warner & Co., pro-
prietors of Warmers safe cure, who
were among the heaviest patrons,
would have to pay something like ST.
OOO year for the same telephone SER
vice as before.
For city of l25,000 people, Roches-
ter has made Il good many sensations
Sam Patch and his deadly leap, the
Fox sisters spiritual rappings, Sew
ards "Irrepressible conflict" speech,
Susan .. Anthony's attempt to vote,
the cometary discoveries of Dr.Swift,
of Warner observatory, have each
made the city the "talk of the
world;" she leads in the manufacture
Of proprietary medicine and her i'm |
mense nursery, shoe and clothing an
teresis puts her III the front rank.
The origin of one of her greatest |
industries is interesting: About ten
years ago one of her foremost citizens |
was stricken down In the very height |
Of q successful business career, with
what his doctors said was an incura- |
BILE disease. They gave him up TO
die. lie then used what Is now
known as Warmers safe cure, and
since then has developed as the
worlds great champion Of the people
against the assumed monopoly OF
physicians over the treatment of dis
sase o. b GW
His fight, too, has been deter
mined one, and as successful as de-
To-day he Is the head OF
Ihe largest proprietary medicine bus
ness in IN world, having branch
houses and laboratories in London,
Toronto, Canada Mel
bourne, Victoria; Sydney, New
South Wales Frankfort, Germany;I
Prague, Austria; Rangoon, Burmah.
Many foreign governments will not
permit the manufacture and sale of
proprietary medicines of any name
'r nature until their formulas, value
md harmlessliess are by them ostab-
ishcd, after themost searching scien-
iic inquiries. In every case War;
ler's safe cure has passed examina-
ion with the highest satisfaction to
he government chemists and an
Ilysts, and the sought for permission
las been granted, which no other
American has before secured.
This confirms the magnificent reps
ltation given it by leading physi.
Jams, ministers, senators, congress
men, lawyers and ladies Of the world.
Its secret is success seys the lead
ng physician at Clifton Springs, N.
2, sanitarium, ais the simplicity of
Is compounds aud tho proportions
a which they are compounded"
GLOW do the people get on 2"
Tho universal verdict is: ave
Ion't miss the phone, except to our
,roftlp
There has been practically no
'resk in the united opposition be-
.un last November.
The American is getting to be
ute as tenacious of his persona
lights as against conspiring monop-
lies as is the typical Englishman,
nd this Rochester telephone episode
"a noteworthy illustration of the
act.